Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1912 — TWO CARS OF CORN TO SEABOARD FROM RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

TWO CARS OF CORN TO SEABOARD FROM RENSSELAER.

Seventy-seven Cars in One Day and Rensselaer is Probably Biggest Corn Point on the Monon. * Other towns are publishing big claims of the vast amount of corn handled these days but we are convinced that there are few towns in Indiana and probably not another one on the Monon railroad that handles as much grain as Rensselaer. In a single day last week two complete trains of shelled corn were shipped from Rensselaer, consisting of 77 cars, the accumulation of only two days. The corn went directly to New York city for export. Could empty cars have been procured there would have been 10 or 15 more cars included in the two trains. One day last week 20 cars were shipped into the Babcock & Hopkins elevator from the buying points bn the Gifford railroad. The daily shipments now are running about twelve car loads of shelled corn but this would be materially . increased could the empty cars be procured. It will thus be seen that there Is a great amount of corn moving activity and yet the price has been getting stronger right along.